thankful

• one true immediate family member
• opportunities
• middle class wealth
• intellect to a certain degree
• luck
• best friends a man could ask for
• a full head of thick, black hair
• relative good health
• acceptable athleticism
• being loved
• to love
• a hand to hold
• french horn
• mellophone
• pacific sunsets
• photographs
• safe neighborhood
• poetry
• favorite pair of black jeans
• respect
• roof over my head with love underneath
• westwood village
• passion
• half a blood-related family to love
• public buses
• rich soul food
• forrest gump
• emotion
• ocean avenue
• ice packs
• hot showers
• the bluffs
• pali high marching band
• plain white t-shirts
• laundry machines
• famima
• height
• tea
• bejeweled blitz
• daily news
• live music
• sunscreen
• youtube
• sidewalks
• zankou
• duffel bags
• you, you, and especially you.